Care4 wrote on Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:34pm:
Swcoulthurst. I think you'll find they can. To my knowledge, there is no way that Spain, or the EU, can differenciate between a homeowners euro and a tourist one. Homeowners pay taxes, electricity, buy equipment and furniture, buy food for cooking, oil, condiments, cars, insurance, home improveme...
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...nt equipment, pay car tax, sumo, Itv vehicles, pay for airport parking, buy plants, clothes and pay community charges. None of these things are part of a tourists' spend. Most are in spain more than once a year. Their families, and statistically there are more families than singles who buy properties anywhere in the world, enjoy the benefit of the family home while still completing tourist tasks. They also go on trips, eat out, drink in bars, play golf and do things tourists do. Personally I transfer around 25,000 euros to Spain every year to allow me our property in Spain. My familys' spend is on top of that. As I have said your six lads need to drink a shed load of beer to match that spend.
I also posted the sentence below...obviously I was right
'We can always agree to disagree otherwise the interpretation of second homeowner and tourist will just keep going around in circles'